Having problems with directx :(

[M4l0N3]

Hey guys,

I was downloading gears of war the other week because i heard about how good gears of war 2 is going to be so i thought, why not i'll give the first game a try, since i dont have an xbox 360.

Well anyway, after a long download process (22 hours- crap share ratio from mini nova ), i installed gears of war which took like another hour to install and after it, it asked me to install the latest ati drivers, direct x drivers and some cpu drivers, etc. i decided not to, to see what the current state at which Gears of War was running at and surprisingly it did launch it but it crashed after the intro and before the menu. So i thought i shud try installin the latest things it was asking me to, so i went along with it. After i installed them i restarted my computer and tryed starting Gears of War but no luck it didnt even load the intro up. I then try loading up a game much less powerful as that such as the punisher and it appears with an error:

"Failed to initialize Direct3D device
D3DERR_INVALIDCALL (8876086c)

Things to check when having Direct3D problems:
-Video card not compatible?
-DirectX8.1 installed properly?
-Retry running setup / video card detection
-Contact technical support"

As you can see, i knew it was because of those updates, but currently im really unsure how to resolve this problem, i wouldnt really want to mess my computer up.

After seeing that error, i went on Start -> Run -> dxdiag -> Test Direct 3D

I went along with the test but it failed to display anything up and it came up with these errors:

-Direct3D 7 test results: Failure at step 8 (Creating 3D Device): HRESULT = 0x80004005 (Generic failure)

-Direct3D 8 test results: Failure at step 8 (Creating 3D Device): HRESULT = 0x8876086c (error code)

-Direct3D 9 test results: Failure at step 8 (Creating 3D Device): HRESULT = 0x8876086c (error code)


Plz can someone help me, im really unsure on how to resolve this issue. I'd really appreciate some help, so i could try GoW =].

[M4l0N3]

hmm i checked the dxdiag just now it says i currently have DirectX 9.0c :s but i still have a problem, its not running my games

[Craig.08]

Best thing to do is uninstall your video drivers and video card in hardware manager. then dl this program: Driver Cleaner Pro - Overclock.net - Overclocking.net and boot in safemode and use it then get your latest drivers and install them then get the latest direct x and install that then see if it works.

[<-5133]

MY dilemna is similiar to the original. I recently downgraded my PC's video card a version (because the other one fried) assuming that no problems would arise. I had this video card originally and I knew that all my games etc... would run on it. After the switch I go to play something not even graphically intense, Halo 1 to bespecific. It would load but the video was completely gone. The picture was almost non existent. All my games were similiar, it didn't crash my game but I was stuck on the menu and the picture was gone.
So I checked using DXDIAG. I tested the 3d to find the errors. Direct 3d 7 worked flawlessly; 8 and 9 however were the areas where the problems were. I was wondering if there was a way to remedy this. I even tried reinstalling Directx entirely. I am currently running on a Nvidia Geforce 4 mx4000 and the most recent Direct x. I'd really like some help

[#43 fan]

Reinstall graphics drivers may be the solution.
Download the latest drivers from the nvidia website.

[ShyguyXPC]

Originally Posted by M4l0N3

Hey guys,

I was downloading gears of war the other week because i heard about how good gears of war 2 is going to be so i thought, why not i'll give the first game a try, since i dont have an xbox 360.

Well anyway, after a long download process (22 hours- crap share ratio from mini nova ), i installed gears of war which took like another hour to install and after it, it asked me to install the latest ati drivers, direct x drivers and some cpu drivers, etc. i decided not to, to see what the current state at which Gears of War was running at and surprisingly it did launch it but it crashed after the intro and before the menu. So i thought i shud try installin the latest things it was asking me to, so i went along with it. After i installed them i restarted my computer and tryed starting Gears of War but no luck it didnt even load the intro up. I then try loading up a game much less powerful as that such as the punisher and it appears with an error:

"Failed to initialize Direct3D device
D3DERR_INVALIDCALL (8876086c)

Things to check when having Direct3D problems:
-Video card not compatible?
-DirectX8.1 installed properly?
-Retry running setup / video card detection
-Contact technical support"

As you can see, i knew it was because of those updates, but currently im really unsure how to resolve this problem, i wouldnt really want to mess my computer up.

After seeing that error, i went on Start -> Run -> dxdiag -> Test Direct 3D

I went along with the test but it failed to display anything up and it came up with these errors:

-Direct3D 7 test results: Failure at step 8 (Creating 3D Device): HRESULT = 0x80004005 (Generic failure)

-Direct3D 8 test results: Failure at step 8 (Creating 3D Device): HRESULT = 0x8876086c (error code)

-Direct3D 9 test results: Failure at step 8 (Creating 3D Device): HRESULT = 0x8876086c (error code)


Plz can someone help me, im really unsure on how to resolve this issue. I'd really appreciate some help, so i could try GoW =].

Maybe try buying the full game & run it, with illegal downloads of full software its always a crap shoot when problems arise...

Chances are you didn't uninstall your old Video drivers first & then install latest ones.

Originally Posted by <-5133

MY dilemna is similiar to the original. I recently downgraded my PC's video card a version (because the other one fried) assuming that no problems would arise. I had this video card originally and I knew that all my games etc... would run on it. After the switch I go to play something not even graphically intense, Halo 1 to bespecific. It would load but the video was completely gone. The picture was almost non existent. All my games were similiar, it didn't crash my game but I was stuck on the menu and the picture was gone.
So I checked using DXDIAG. I tested the 3d to find the errors. Direct 3d 7 worked flawlessly; 8 and 9 however were the areas where the problems were. I was wondering if there was a way to remedy this. I even tried reinstalling Directx entirely. I am currently running on a Nvidia Geforce 4 mx4000 and the most recent Direct x. I'd really like some help

as #43 said, install the latest graphic drivers, & see if that helps...

to add to that, download the latest drivers for your card & Operating system, save it to the desktop or a folder like My Documents... once that is done, uninstall the old video drivers (typically easily done via Add/remove programs in control panel under Windows XP), uninstall, reboot, ignore the windows prompts to install new software for the device (windows will just run using a default basic display driver), go to where new drivers are, install them, reboot, all done, new drivers should be loaded for your card/system...


afterwards double check you have the absolute latest version of DirectX installed.